Netflix has premiered the first posts for the third season of Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” anthology series at Netflix, this one starring Charlie Hunnam as infamous serial killer Ed Gein.
The Wisconsin-born Gein was infamous in 1957. He was dubbed ‘The Butcher of Plainfield’ after authorities discovered not only had he killed multiple people across the 1940s and the 1950s, he had also exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned clothing and household items from the remains.
The infamous case directly inspired several onscreen serial killer characters, including Norman Bates in “Psycho,” Leatherface in the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, and Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs”.
Also starring are Laurie Metcalf as Ed Gein’s mother, Augusta, Tom Hollander as filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and Olivia Williams as Hitchcock’s wife, Alma Reville.
This follows on from the successful runs of the show’s first two seasons – Evan Peters playing Jeffrey Dahmer in the first, while the second focused on the Menendez brothers.
“Monster: The Ed Gein Story” will premiere on October 3rd 2025.
